30 Bible Verses about Women's Roles
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For as the woman was taken out of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things are of God.
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man in the Lord.
for I permit not a woman to teach in public, or to assume authority over the man, but to abide in silence.
But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.
But she shall be saved through childbearing, if they abide in faith, and love, and holiness with sobriety.
But if a woman let her hair flow, it is an ornament to her; for the hair was given her for a covering,
For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to nature;
that they instruct the young women to be discreet, to love their husbands, to love their children,
For a man indeed ought not to veil his head, being the image and the glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.
Therefore ought the woman to retain upon her head [this badge of authority], because of the angels [of the churches].
For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; and is himself the saviour of the body.
For if the woman be not veiled, let her hair be clipped: but if it would be scandalous for a woman to appear clipped or shaved, let her be veiled.
but every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled, dishonoureth her head; for it is one and the same thing, as if she were shaven.
Let no widow be put on the list under sixty years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband,
to be sober, domestic, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not ill reported of.
Judge among yourselves, is it decent for a woman to be praying to God without a covering?
Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband.
Let your women be silent in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak: but to be in subjection, as also the law saith.
That the elder women also be sacredly becoming in their behaviour, not slanderers, not enslaved by much wine, teachers of propriety;
Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
I NOW commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a deaconess of the church which is at Cenchrea:
In all things approving thyself as a pattern of good works: in thy teaching, shewing integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn as their first duty to shew their piety towards their own family, and make a grateful return to their progenitors: for this is becoming and acceptable before God.
Does not even nature itself teach you, that if a man wear long flowing hair it is a dishonour to him?
But if any man mean to be contentious about it, we have no such custom, nor the churches of God.
Nor can the eye say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
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